Herbert A. Simon quote — “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention…”

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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Herbert A. Simon

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